"I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret."
"Why is love intensified by absence?"
"I never wanted to have anything in my life that I couldn't stand losing. But it's too late for that."
"Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning. I want to be free to act, and I also want my actions to mean something."
"I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room"
"Right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment."